Deleting

[birdlady]

Please help me, I need to know how to delete a file that I have made, I was
able to delete the actaul doc, but unable to delete the name of it in the one
spot

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And which spot is that?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[birdlady]

Its in the list where you save them, its still there and I can not figure out
how to delete it from there
--
birdlady

And which spot is that?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Ned23]

Well, you can't delete a file while you have it open and are inside of the
file. Since I don't know what directory your file is in, Try this:

1. Open the file you want to delete
2. Delete all of the text
3. When you go to save it, do a "Save as" and give it a different name.
4. Exit Word
5. Open the new file you just made
6. Select "open" a new file.
7. When the window pops up to open the files from the spot you saved them,
see if you can delete the old file from inside of the new one.

Its in the list where you save them, its still there and I can not figure out
how to delete it from there

 

[birdlady]

Well thanks but that didn't work either, now I have to blank files and both
names are still there.. its the name I can't delete? Why is that?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, you're referring to the dropdown for "Filename" in the Save As dialog?
I believe this requires a Registry edit, and I'm not sure exactly which key
it is that you need to delete, but there's a fairly comprehensive article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/161631. This article is for Word 97, and
there's no indication that there are versions of the article for other
versions of Word, but if you substitute the number of your Word version in
the Registry keys given, you should be able to use the same information.

The key given for the Save As dialog is My
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Common Open
Find\Microsoft Word\Settings\Save As\File Name MRU; for 8.0 you would
substitute 12.0 for Word 2007, 11.0 for Word 2003, and so on backward.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Its in the list where you save them, its still there and I can not figure
out
how to delete it from there

 

[oakley99]

Well, you can't delete a file while you have it open and are inside o
the
file. Since I don't know what directory your file is in, Try this:

1. Open the file you want to delete
2. Delete all of the text
3. When you go to save it, do a "Save as" and give it a differen
name.
4. Exit Word
5. Open the new file you just made
6. Select "open" a new file.
7. When the window pops up to open the files from the spot you save
them,
see if you can delete the old file from inside of the new one.

Nice tips friend..
But maybe birdlady delete that file when she / he still open tha
file.
So windows not delete because user open that file.
Maybe better he not run file, after that delete.

 

[p0]

Okay, you're referring to the dropdown for "Filename" in the Save As dialog?
I believe this requires a Registry edit, and I'm not sure exactly which key
it is that you need to delete, but there's a fairly comprehensive article athttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/161631. This article is for Word 97, and
there's no indication that there are versions of the article for other
versions of Word, but if you substitute the number of your Word version in
the Registry keys given, you should be able to use the same information.

The key given for the Save As dialog is My
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Common Open
Find\Microsoft Word\Settings\Save As\File Name MRU; for 8.0 you would
substitute 12.0 for Word 2007, 11.0 for Word 2003, and so on backward.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

Alternatively you can just open enough other Word documents to clean
out the MRU.

Yves

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In this situation, it's not a case of *opening* more documents but of saving
more, since the MRU list in question is the one in the Filename box of the
Save As dialog.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org